How much does Employ Milwaukee Inc give?

Employ Milwaukee Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $3,591,950, out of $5,574,305 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Employ Milwaukee Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (80%), Youth Development (8%), Human Services (7%).

Who are Employ Milwaukee Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Kaiser Group Dba Dynamic Workforce Solutions ($4.8M), United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee ($3.9M), Maximus Inc ($3.3M).

Does Employ Milwaukee Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Employ Milwaukee Inc based?

Employ Milwaukee Inc is based in WI.

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Employ Milwaukee Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Employ Milwaukee Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc.

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc.

$5.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.2M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$29MYouth Development$2.7MHuman Services$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEnvironment$373kCrime & Legal$18kHealth$12k

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 13 grants below total $3,591,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,574,305 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,982,355 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$50k–250k6 grants · $537k
$250k+5 grants · $3.0M

$96,585

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DYNAMIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS	$1,162,170
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC	$669,855
EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS	$655,881
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC	$277,573
WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING	$253,105
MILWAUKEE WATER WORKS	$141,232
MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT	$96,585
MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC	$90,351
CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE CAREERS	$73,703
WAUKESHA COUNTY	$71,466
JOURNEY HOUSE	$64,086
UNITED MIGRANT OPPORTUNITY SERVICES DBA UMOS INC	$24,300
GREATER MILWAUKEE NATIONAL	$11,643

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$34M · 29 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$34M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+53%

Still filing today

59%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +132% · 74% of their budget
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +21%
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WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP
6× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +11%

Funded once

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LABOR EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER INC
one grant, 2017 · $980k · revenue -99%
RI
ROSS INNOVATIVE EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
one grant, 2024 · $181k
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $107k · revenue -4%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

West Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board Inc

Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area

Employment

Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board Inc

The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.

Public Benefit

Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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Milwaukee Careers Cooperative

Milwaukee careers cooperative is a non profit employment agency that provides unique employment services, such as education, placement & transportation to assist individuals to obtain and maintain employment. milwaukee careers cooperative…

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Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Workforce development board of south central wisconsin, inc.'s mission is to build public and private partnerships that support innovation and excellence in workforce development.in furtherance of its mission the organization dedicates…

Employment

Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program Inc

Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.

Employment

Workforce Connections Inc

Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…

Employment

Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…

Human Services

Milwaukee Area Workforce Funding Alliance Inc

Leverage national and local grant resources to ensure that low-income, low-skilled individuals have access to training and workforce development services and to support employers in meeting their workforce needs.

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Veterans Issues Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

17/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$20,467,820Youth Development$5,226,493Human Services$4,660,327Philanthropy$1,771,837Crime & Legal$1,497,137Employment$1,105,913Community Improvement$987,803

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI36× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Hunger Task Force Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Newthreads of Hope Inc · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Employ Milwaukee Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Employ Milwaukee Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home